State Department to label Japan as an “international hub” for producing and trafficking child pornography. The paper said the number of child abuse victims jumped 20% between 20, and the number of victims, arrests and cases are at their highest levels since they started compiling statistics in 1999.Īt the same time, the number of cleared child pornography crime cases rose to 1,596, the highest ever recorded, the paper said. While no link has been made between anime, manga and child abuse, Japan is facing a “serious” child abuse problem, according to a White Paper issued by e National Police Agency in March. “So the pedophiles might bring the animation and say ‘this is how you practice with adults,’” she said. She told CNN she once worked on a case where a predator used a cartoon to convince a child that sex abuse was normal. Shihoko Fujiwara runs Lighthouse, a nonprofit for exploited children. So there are no actual victims,” he said. But manga doesn’t involve actual children. “Actual children suffering and crying is not acceptable. So the pedophiles might bring the animation and say ‘this is how you practice with adults’ He said the characters were imaginary, so unlike real child porn, no one was hurt. Ken Akamatsu, who lobbies lawmakers on behalf of the Japan Cartoonists Association, said a total ban on explicit content would damage the entire industry, making creators too scared to put pen to paper in case they risked breaking the rules. Maybe the character is 20 years old, but maybe from your point of view, the character’s 15 years old. “Cuteness means a generally more infantile character.
Mio Bryce, an expert on anime and manga from Macquarie University in Sydney, said Japan’s obsession with “kawaii” or cuteness made it difficult to distinguish whether the characters in the material were depicting children or not. Some of the predominantly female characters wore school uniforms, hair clips and innocent expressions as they engaged in sometimes violent sex acts with dominant characters. But five feet away, in an area marked “adults only,” the content took a sharp turn into shocking sex scenes, apparently involving minors.
The district is a known hub for “otakus,” obsessive members of anime and manga fandom, a worldwide group of avid followers of the genre.ĭown a set of stairs, there are rows and rows of manga, many containing popular themes and images. To see what’s being openly sold on Japanese shelves, CNN took a hidden camera to one of the many manga stores in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.
However, it doesn’t include possession of anime or manga depicting child abuse, no matter how sexually explicit.
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